Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries.

The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

Michael Moorcock’s “A Nomad of the Time Streams” is a steampunk/alternative history novel where Makhno survives into the 1940s.

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Today in Labor History August 11, 1882: Russian anarchist Volin (Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum) was born. He was forced into exile for his revolutionary activities during the 1905 Russian Revolution. He returned during the 1917 revolution, where he criticized the Bolsheviks, before fleeing to Ukraine, where he became a leading figure in the autonomous, anarchist commune of Makhnovshchina. He fled again, this time to France, after the Bolsheviks secured power in Russia and Ukraine, where he remained until his death from tuberculosis, in 1945, successfully evading arrest by the Nazis for his radical politics and his Jewish heritage.

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Today in Labor History July 8, 1898: May Picqueray was born. She was a French anarchist, trade unionist and pacifist, who published the pacifist, anti-militarist periodical Le Réfractaire from 1974 to 1983. In 1921, in response to the silence of the French press on the convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti, she sent a parcel bomb containing a defensive grenade and leaflets to the American embassy. Her efforts helped mobilize French journalists, without harming any people and only causing damage to material. In 1922, as a delegate of the Metalworkers union, she visited Moscow, where she climbed on a table full of Red Trade Union officials to denounce their having a luxurious banquet while the common people starved. She refused to shake hands with Trotsky because of his responsibility for crushing the Kronstadt rebellion, and his betrayal of Nestor Makhno. During the Spanish Civil War, she helped transport orphans out of the country. During World War II, she help people escape French concentration camps. She also was a participant in the French uprising of May 1968, participated in anti-nuclear campaigns and supported war resisters.

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Today in Labor History June 4, 1919: Trotsky banned the 4th Ukrainian Congress of Free Soviets with his Order #1824. He also sent troops to destroy the Rosa Luxemburg Commune near Provkovski, and declared the Ukrainian anarchist insurgent Nestor Makhno an outlaw. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno) lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society and it was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

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Prolétaires du monde entier, descendez dans vos propres profondeurs, cherchez-y la vérité, créez-la vous-mêmes ! Vous ne la trouverez nulle part ailleurs.

#NestorMakhno / Mémoires et Écrits (posthume/2009)

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Russia's Wagner Army and Ukraine's Azov battalion are Slav nationalists and Nazis. But Ukrainian Anti-authoritarians and Anarchists also have their own troops.
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@bookstodon @bookreviews Graphic novel recommendation from your friendly #anarchist #bookseller Makhno Ukrainian Freedom Fighter is an awesome biographical account of the life of Ukraine's greatest anarchist hero #NestorMakhno. His life story was largely suppressed and ignored by mainstream historians, but it is important to remember that he stood up for Ukrainian peasants and raised an army to simultaneously fight the Russian Tsarists, communists and German imperialists. A true man of the people whose story is now available in an accessible format. Check it out.

In Huliaipole, sandbags are piled around a statue of Nestor Makhno to protect it from shelling. (Heidi Levine/For The Washington Post) #Anarchism #Ukraine #NestorMakhno https://www.stripes.com/incoming/3hxv93-southpush3.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_910/southpush3.jpg

carta do #malatesta ao #Nestormakhno da ucrania https://web.archive.org/web/20030224205737/http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/platform/malatesta_reply.html

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Book Review: The Makhnovshchina and Its Aftermath
"Black Cat Press have (again) added to what we know about the Makhnovist movement," the Kate Sharpley Library says in its latest Bulletin.

The Makhnovshchina and Its Aftermath: Documents from the movement and its survivorsNestor Makhno, Galina Kuzmenko,
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/05/29/book-review-the-makhnovshchina-and-its-aftermath/
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📙️ Neuerwerbung der Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten:

Valentin Tschepego (Hrsg.):
Aus Machnos Feder
Machno: Zeugnisse einer Bewegung, Band 2

In dem zweiten Band der Reihe „Machno, Zeugnisse einer Bewegung“ kommt der maßgebliche Initiator dieser breiten Bewegung im Osten der Ukraine zu Wort. Einer Bewegung, die ihren […]

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📙️ Neuerwerbung der Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten:

Valentin Tschepego (Hrsg.):
Von Freund und Feind
Machno: Zeugnisse einer Bewegung, Band 1

Für die einen waren sie reiche Großbauern, für die anderen Räuber, die es auf reiche Großbauern abgesehen haben. Im Russischen Bürgerkrieg, welcher nach der Revolution von 1917[…]

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Therefore also studying Ukrainian #Anarchists and people like #NestorMakhno. He is a figure very inspirational to me, but also a flawed person and A.F.A.I.K basically a warlord. (2/2)